Forgotten Travel Journals
We bring the great travel narratives back to life
Historical texts rewritten in contemporary English, complete and illustrated with maps. The world seen by those who discovered it, readable at last today.
72 titles, 9 series, 5 languages
New releases
The latest titles in our series.
The world, through its explorers
Each collection covers a geographic and cultural area. The medieval traveler in Persia stands alongside the explorer of New France, the Polynesian navigator, the missionary in the Congo.
Wild Americas
Amazonia, Patagonia, Far West, New France
10 titles
The Old Orient
Turkey, Persia, Arabia, Egypt
13 titles
Hidden Asia
China, Japan, India, Indochina
8 titles
Uncharted Africa
Sahara, Congo, Southern Africa
1 title
Far North
Arctic, Siberia, Alaska, Scandinavia
9 titles
Oceania & Pacific
Polynesia, Australia, Melanesia
16 titles
Lost Europe
Balkans, Caucasus, Central Europe
2 titles
South Pole
Antarctica, Subantarctic Islands
6 titles
East Indies
India, Ceylon, Spice Islands, Madagascar
7 titles
Explore by period, by region
Every region and every period has its own guide: accounts, context and the titles in our catalogue.
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